When my daughter was little, I became fixated on a schoolhouse a few blocks from our apartment—a Tudor-style storybook cottage, with red trim and a brick chimney and a playground all of wood. Its ...

Maria Montessori stood before a crowd of 60 underprivileged children, her students. It was January 6, 1907, and the 36-year-old educator was opening her first school: the Casa dei Bambini, or ...

Because Montessori schools are often associated with progressive suburbanites and well-to-do private schools, many people don’t know that Dr. Maria Montessori originally developed her pedagogical ...

The Child Is the Teacher: A Life of Maria Montessori, by Cristina De Stefano, Other Press, 248 pages, $28.99 Maria Montessori's ideas about education stem from the principles of choice, individual ...

It’s been more than 100 years since Dr. Maria Montessori first developed the Montessori method of education, which focuses on building children’s resourcefulness and natural abilities through ...

Few educators have had as lasting of an impact as Maria Montessori - an Italian physician and educator who opened her first classroom in Rome in 1907. Her unique teaching philosophy "was based on her ...

In I947, Dr. Maria Montessori wrote an open letter to all governments: “My life has been spent in the research of truth. Through the study of children, I have scrutinised human nature at its origin ...

Maria Montessori stood before a crowd of 60 underprivileged children, her students. It was January 6, 1907, and the ...